Papal Prophylactics?!

Most Protestants are OK with birth control (I am, as long as you're married), and some Catholics in the U.S. use it, even though the Vatican doesn't approve.
I too was surprised that Sixpence would let them use that song- but then again, wasn't it a remake?

Yes, it is. The original was done by a band called The Las (as in 'la-la-la').

Thanks, akg, that explains a lot. It is nice to know that Dr. Atkins had some integrity, not so nice that his relatives don't.

This commercial kicks ass. Although you missed one thing: when Lassie does the Matrix move to get ready to fight, the cougar's mouth drops open. Hilarious!

It's also possible that Sixpence, while a Christian band (really? I'd never heard that), might not share the church's view on birth control.


I remember it. I have it on a CD somewhere. But I liked the other football one better: The groundskeeper comes in and paints the endzone while the team's practicing. He spends forever carefully getting all the shapes of the letters just right. He stands up, exhausted and glad to be done. A player comes up and says, "That's great. But who are the Chefs?" Zoom out to show that he left out a letter, and the endzone says "Chefs". "Great googly moogly", says the groundskeeper. Love that one.

I had no idea they were a Christian group. None. Yay! Tornado learned today!


You know, I was going to, but nope. I'm gonna leave it alone.


I remember it! And I loved it, too! But, you don't know me, so I guess that doesn't really help.


Some? Virtually every Catholic I know that is in a position to use it, does so. That is to say, the ardent Catholics I know are married, etc and want kids--it's not a matter of birth control being prohibited. The other Catholics I know think the "rule" is silly. As a former Catholic thoroughly familiar with these rules, I can say IMO the Catholic Church has a very serious image problem in the sense that this? Is the Real World--the Church can come into it anytime.

And I believe I read somewhere that the original song is really about heroin addiction. If that's true, then Sixpence None the Richer can't really make a stink about bastardizing the song's "message", since they kinda did it already.

I finally saw the tampon boat-plugging (I said BOAT plugging...calm down) commercial. Feminine hygiene product ads are really getting out of control. Tampons at restaurants. Tampons in class. Tampon ladders out the window at parties. Shut up, tampons.

Ooooh! Is Kool-Aid made by Proctor & Gamble? 'Cause you know they partner with Satan and all.... *wink*

The Catholic church wants us to think we're going to hell for pre-marital sex anyway, so we might as well use the birth control while we're at it.

I was channel surfing late one night, when what do I see but what I think is truly the most disgusting ad to ever grace a TV screen! Gore? No. Chauvinism? No. Alternative uses for feminine hygiene products? No.

It was an ad for this agency.

Because 'people have needs'! And there's nothing wrong with it!... at least, for the people on the cheating end. Yeah, because the person you exchange marriage vows with doesn't have needs or feelings, either, you evil cheating assf*cks. If you need to date that badly, at least divorce or separate or something before finding someone else.

I don't even want to imagine the sick person who came up with this idea.

[Monty Python voice]

Husband: Those Catholics think they have to have a child everytime they have sex.

Wife: But we have two children and we've had sex twice.

Husband: I can hold my head up and and say, "Harry, I'd like to buy a condom. Infact, today I think I'd like a French Tickler. Because I'm a Protestant!"

[/Monty Python voice]

I say we get the Atkins and Dr. Seuss heirs in a room and let some rabid dogs loose on them. It would be a public service.

Rabid dogs? Hmm, I think it would be more appropriate to lock them in a big room with TVs lining the walls, floor to ceiling, all playing the CitH commercials and the various Atkins related commercials... a different commercial on each TV at the same time, at top volume... that would drive anyone, even the supporters, crazy.

Okay, sure. Let's throw some rabid dogs in there, too.

Pads to the left of me, tampons to the right--here I am, stuck in the middle with you...

A woman I work with has her whole family on Atkins and is pretty obsessive about it. My friend and I routinely visit Starbucks for Frappuccinos (mmm...Venti Mocha Malt...) while this woman drinks some low-carb chocolate shake in a box, eyeing our coffees. The whole time, this woman talks about evil carbs. Last night, my friend and I went to her mom's house for dinner inbetween shifts--breaded chicken, rolls, and baked macaroni and cheese, Alton-style. We were gonna bring a plate for crazy Atkins lady, but decided against it. Another coworker tempts crazy Atkins lady with chips and brownies, and she'll howl, "I'm on Atkins!" The tempter's response? "Don't worry, I won't tell him," or "He's dead. He won't know."

It's a craze that's driving me crazy. And what's worse than the diet and stupid commercials and rearranging of menus are the damn people who follow it. One might think Atkins was the Messiah or something.

I guess the miracle of the 'loaves & fishes' would have to be the miracle of the 'fishes & fishes', then!

TOPIC: After weeks & weeks of having to see that Dentyne Ice(?) commercial where the hottie with the pretty eyes breathes frost on the subway window and writes her phone #, I've finally memorized the phone #. It's actually pretty easy to remember (I was distracted during previous viewings by the cool song and her eyes).

For absolutely no points- what is the Dentyne Ice Woman's Phone #?

Amswer: 555-1708

They could be going after the ones who don't have sex. Seriously - I stayed on it even when I had no bf because it alleviated PMS for me.

Sixpence None the Richer is a Christian band, but it's Sixpence None the Wiser which sings "There She Goes". (Hadn't even heard of the first til I was looking for the second on iTMS)

Ashley Madison... wow. Do you know how many kids there are in metro Atlanta, particularly the north side, named Ashley Madison?

Concept aside, that's the first thing I thought of.

What was the TV commercial itself like, I wonder?

Then somebody better tell Sixpence None the Richer to stop selling another band's cover of 'There She Goes'....

Sixpence None the Richer's homepage (click the 'Music' link at the top of the page, when you get to the 'Music' page, scroll down about 2/3rds of the way). Also, check out their discography on Yahoo or their albums on Amazon.

Please tell me you called it, Sleestak, you would totally make my day!

I saw a commercial for the IRS e-filing service that cracked me up. It showed a guy putting the finishing touches on his tax forms, everything filled out perfectly, and then straightening up his desk. Pencils are lined up, everything's super neat and organized and the guy smiles in satisfaction. Then he spills his coffee all over the tax forms.

My boyfriend and I both burst out laughing.

I tried. I got transfered to my cellphone carrier's 'Directory Assistance'. I hung up before I had to explain to anyone that I was trying to reach the 'Dentyne Ice Woman with Pretty Eyes'.

Those guys jotting down her number are gonna be bummed.....

KHHAAAAAAHHHHHHNNNN!

Well, at least you tried, Sleestak, that's the important thing. I dialed Jenny's number a few times, in my youth.

Commercial topic? I have been trying to figure out if the cd compilation, On Tha Down Low was named by a total idiot or if it is supposed to be marketed towards the demographic in the title.

"Down low" is defined as: "a term used to refer to black men who have sex with men but do not identify as gay."

But I'm confused, there's a guy and a girl on the cover of the cd, but the narrator goes, "keep it on tha down low, 'cause no one has to know."

Marketing SNAFU, or intentional? What do y'all think?

Weird. Google turns up a "Wiser", and that's what I thought they'd said on the radio. Should have noticed there weren't many hits, and no homepage...

"on the down low" originally just meant "secret". Rather like the way "The Full Monty" means "everything" in England, not "naked", when a different subculture heard it applied to one thing, they assumed it meant only that thing, and the new meaning took over.

If you Google for it with "-gay" you find a lot of places it's used to mean "secret" (far more than for "Sixpence none the wiser")

The Chex Mix stop-motion animation commercial? Totally rocks. Not annoying, not tiresome, just cool.

These were also the lyrics on an old R. Kelly song. He's not gay, he was singing about a female. Whether she was older than 12? Not so sure.

For the Canadian TWOPpers, I love the Tim Horton's "Nostalgia" commercials. "Scotland" just made me feel so warm inside and the latest one, "Backpacking through Europe" is just so damn cool. Maybe it's because I've had similar experiences.

And now I'm off to get a chocolate snow Timbit.

Anyone see the new Golden Coral commercial? Wouldn't eat there with a ten foot fork, but the new one has a puppy running around, chewing and eating everything. Then, the mom says, "where are my keys."

Cut to outside. A car is beeping, as though someone is pressing the button on the fob. The shot goes wider, and you see a boy with the puppy. He notices this, presses on the pup's stomach, and the lights flash on the car--the puppy swallowed the keys!

Comedy gold, I must say!

Damn! I thought nobody remembered that rumor but me! For a time, P&G even put that on a FAQ of some sorts, but I forgot where I saw it. All I remember is that it had something to do with their logo.

Also, I've never seen the commercial myself, but my boyfriend told me about an Audi commercial with some guy on a cell phone. Well, he paused the commercial just to write down that number, made ME call it, and it turns out to be the guy from the commercial's voice mail. Pretty neat, lol.

Seriously, this was on TV? It's not that I doubt your word, but that is completely f**ked up. That's something that should be on 'tha down low,' if anything should. Actually, it shouldn't even exist. Get a divorce, creeps. I better get those webhits off my history page or I'll have some 'splainin' to do to my husband!

Due to their immense popularity compared to their pointlessness in daily life, I have actively been against owning an SUV. Can't afford one regardless, but still. However, I saw a commercial for some Nissan model that while way beyond my budget, has so many places for stashing stuff that I am starting to be tempted into wanting one. Stupid advertisers, affecting my views like that!

Bad SUV commercial : woman calls friends, who are tooling around in their SUV. They track and capture a bicyclist, flipping down the backseat so he doesn't have to leave his bike behind. They take him to some building and dress him in a nice shirt, and take him to friendgirl, who is waiting impatiently on the sidewalk. She parades up to her presumptive ex-boyfriend (who's dining with a pretty girl) with CapturedGuy on her arm. Wow, a vehicle that makes kidnapping easier. Just the feature I was looking for. Except, not, as I am not a criminal.

I still haven't seen Matrix-Lassie, though I did see the oogy worm-eating Trivial Pursuit ad and the uber-creepy Snuggle pool-perv ad during my TwoP hiatus. God hates me.

You can checkhere for the debunking of that old proctor and gamble myth.
LaBlatt Blue commercial with the chick exchanging gifts with the bear made me think of the episode of CSI with the "'Plushies and Furries" and squicked me out.

Between that, the ad for the married woman's cheating service and those awful digicam ads that promote the idea of peeping tom's - what the heck are these ad agencies thinking? And why are they getting paid for that?

ETA - the cheating service doesn't count because the entire service is horrid. But the other two are "normal" products and their ads could reflect more positive uses.

[OT] I saw a blurb on the news a couple days ago that there is now some anecdotal evidence of increased risk of GOUT amongst Atkins dieters.[/OT]

Topic: Okay, so 20 years ago we got the famous 1984 Apple ad. And, recently they released a "20th anniversary" version of it on a web site, which is basically the same ad, with a digitally-added iPod on the woman.

anyone hear if this is actually going to be on television, or is it only on the website? It would make some lovely symmetry for it to be on the Super Bowl.

I saw that Gleem "Adult Bad Breath" clip again! This time, it was in the closing credits of Texas, profiled on WoST:

Stanky Hoo-Hoo!

Stanky Hoo-Hoo's Revenge!

Oh, and last night, I found myself pulling a crazy and talking to the TV screen when the $153 a bottle diet pill commercial came on. I don't remember who typed it first, but I totally talked back to the screen.

"When is a diet pill worth $153 a bottle?"
"When it's crystal meth!"

Whoever said that made me very happy. I have little to do on Saturday nights except talk to my TV screen.

I hate the one with the H&R Block lady talking about how her customers invariably bring in all their receipts stuffed into a big shoe box and now has a bazillion showboxes she needs to unload. There's this one part in she comments how she tells her customers she's glad they wear double wides which makes me think of something Al Bundy would say.


Heh, from the man who wears the funny hat. (Obscure Ren & Stimpy reference).


This is like totally off-topic, but I remember watching that show once. It had to be the absolutely worst soap opera I had ever seen. I kinda remember Gleem's ads, though.

On topic? The best Superbowl ads show comes on at 10 PM tonight on CBS.

Is it the same vehicle used by dad and kids to kidnap the computer dude? Can you do product placement in one ad for another totally unrelated product?
The part that makes me scratch my head is her saying when they leave she is left with lots of empty shoe boxes. Huh? What does she do with the reciepts?

I'm watching Spike TV, and Quizno's is running even more creepy commercials. The guy suckling on the wolf-mother? Nothing compared to the Quizno's googly-eyed mutant-rodent things floating in midair singing about Quizno subs!! Arrggh!! When I eat I would think about one of those things squirming around inside the toasted bun. Squicky!!

I love the FedEx commercial with the two guys in the office being all dramatic and saying "doomed!" in hilarious voices. I don't know why I find it so funny, it might have to do with the facial expressions one man makes.

If you like the song from that Mitsubishi commerical, you can listen to it here

That was last night. Tonight is the SuperBowl, followed by Survivor. We get to see the new ads! Yay!

I love the Sprint commercial with the herd of stampeding dachshunds. I wish they would start showing that again.

What was up with that Wachovia ad--it starts with a fashion show, then a woman at a PTA meeting wearing the ill-fitting main dress. And this has something to do with retirement how? Was she wearing tube socks and sandals with the dress?

Super Bowl Time!

Did anyone else giggle at the Tostitos commercial with the Mary-Louise Parker lookalike bride who comes into the room where the men are all watching football. That was pretty funny.

The McDonald's commercial with the hamburger wrapper used as a dryer sheet was a little disturbing.

I hate the MTV viewer commercial, the one with the man wearing a Tshirt and nothing else. He's walking around, reaching into cabinets, bending over, that sort of thing. I can see that in my own house, thank you.

Zumanity, right there with you. After the McD's ad, we both said, "Ew!" The Tostitos one was pretty funny, too, when the guy at the end said he swore he wouldn't cry.

Jessica Simpson and the Muppets? Hilarity!

Bud Light is going to have to air like new and/or funny ads if they even want me to ever consider drinking their beer. You know, when I am of legal drinking age... I know! I'm so easily influenced by commercials!

MountainGirl, look! There they go!

Apparently some movie execs watched their copies of the Angel second season DVD. Too bad they missed the point when Angel said to cut the Van Helsing, Jr., crap. Why couldn't there have been something worth Hugh Jackman's talent?

Ford is starting to annoy with the constant GT ads. Although the "Clearly a stunt driver on a closed track" was kind of funny.

Okay Bud Light kind of won me over, all though groin injuries are getting cliche.

Fed-Ex ehh..

But the Dodge "Monkey on your back" was funny, just because of the monkey.

Bears buying Pepsi? Okay...

I don't like American Chopper so the AOL commercial annoyed.

Van Helsing? mmmm...Hugh Jackman

Cedric + Bud Light... It just kind of left me cold.

Oopsie.

I have to say Bud Light is two for two. Both the dogs and the bikini wax made me laugh. Crotch jokes might be cliche, but they are still funny.

The Pepsi bears were cute.

Van Helsing. Oh please. Hugh Jackman better re-sign for the next X-Men movie.